2024 The Sentry Picks & Odds: New Year, New Tournament

Even though some big names (Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy) are absent for varying reasons, the field for the first PGA Tour event of 2024 is jam-packed with big names, including tournament favorite Scottie Scheffler and FedExCup champ Viktor Hovland

The Sentry kicks off the 2024 calendar at the Kapalua Resort on Maui this weekend.

We will see a new winner, too, as each of the last two champions — Jon Rahm (2023) and Cam Smith (2022) — has since jumped ship to LIV Golf.

Even without those two heavy hitters, the field is a big one with a lot of pedigree spread between the 59 entrants.

We look at the favorites and the field in our betting preview for the 2024 edition of The Sentry, complete with golf odds and free golf picks to follow.

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The Sentry field and favorites

The 59-golfer field is comprised of tournament winners from 2023 and everyone who finished within the Top 50 in last season's FedExCup standings (Rahm excluded).

The betting favorite is the OWGR No. 1-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler (available between +550 and +600 to win outright) with FedExCup champion Viktor Hovland the only other golfer drawing odds shorter than 10/1. Hovland won three tournaments in the 2022-23 season, trailing only the departed Rahm. Scheffler is one of seven other multi-tournament winners from last year making the trip to Maui.

Those golfers are Max Homa (+1,400), Tom Kim (+2,500), Tony Finau (+3,300), Wyndham Clark (+5,000), Keegan Bradley (+6,000), and Lucas Glover (+12,500). Rory McIlroy, who also won a pair of PGA Tour events last year, is skipping The Sentry to open his season in the Middle East on the DP World Tour.

Also drawing short odds relative to the field are Ludvig Aberg (+1,400) and Collin Morikawa (+1,400).

The most recent former winner of this event to also be in the field is Harris English, who claimed victory at the 2021 edition. He and Xander Schauffele are looking to join the likes of Justin Thomas and Dustin Johnson as multi-time winners at Kapalua.

The Sentry picks and predictions

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2024 The Sentry Odds Odds FAQs

The 2024 edition of The Sentry will be played from January 4-7 at the Plantation Course at Kapalua on Maui, Hawaii.

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is the betting favorite to win The Sentry with his longest odds set at +600.

The overall purse for the 2024 eidtion of The Sentry is $20 million, with $3.6 million going to the winner.

John Rahm won last year's Sentry Tournament by two strokes over Collin Morikawa. Rahm is not in the field this year after signing with LIV Golf.